(tense) This is the first time I've eaten sushi.

[henh...@gmail.com]

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/146183/tense-when-saying-this-is-the-first-time-i

>>> ... here are the top three in my opinion, and in my personal preferred order of usage:

(1) -- This is the first time I eat sushi.
(2) -- This is my first time eating sushi.
(3) -- I'm eating sushi (now) for the first time.
(4) -- This is the first time I've eaten sushi.


i agree with this guy ... that (1) is very common colloquially

(4) seems a bit illogical _before_ the speaker actually puts it in his/her mouth.

that's why the following is common:

(5) -- This is the first time I'm eating sushi.



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> >> First time I see this explanation.

this doesn't sound THAT bad, but
i can hear it in a Chinese lady's voice in a movie.

like [Long time no see]

[Ken Blake]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:28:56 -0700 (PDT), "henh...@gmail.com"
<henh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/146183/tense-when-saying-this-is-the-first-time-i
>
>>>> ... here are the top three in my opinion,

Three?

>and in my personal preferred order of usage:

>(1) -- This is the first time I eat sushi.
>(2) -- This is my first time eating sushi.
>(3) -- I'm eating sushi (now) for the first time.
>(4) -- This is the first time I've eaten sushi.
>
>
>i agree with this guy ... that (1) is very common colloquially

I strongly disagree. I've never heard anything like that from anybody,
except perhaps from someone I once knew who spoke broken English,

In my opinion, (1) is terrible. It would be far from the top of my
preferred order.

>(4) seems a bit illogical _before_ the speaker actually puts it in his/her mouth.

I think it's fine, not at all illogical.

Also fine is "This is the first time I ate sushi."

>that's why the following is common:
>
> (5) -- This is the first time I'm eating sushi.

That's also OK.

An aside: I've been eating sushi since about 1954. I started in a
Japanese restaurant in NYC. I think that in those days it was one of
the only three Japanese restaurants in the USA; they were all in NYC.
It's still one of my favorite foods, although I only eat nigiri and
gunkanmaki, almost never rolls. If it weren't so expensive, I'd eat
sushi more often--maybe twice a week.

[Tony Cooper]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:52:48 -0700, Ken Blake <K...@invalid.news.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:28:56 -0700 (PDT), "henh...@gmail.com"
><henh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/146183/tense-when-saying-this-is-the-first-time-i
>>
>>>>> ... here are the top three in my opinion,
>
>Three?
>
>
>>and in my personal preferred order of usage:
>
>>(1) -- This is the first time I eat sushi.
>>(2) -- This is my first time eating sushi.
>>(3) -- I'm eating sushi (now) for the first time.
>>(4) -- This is the first time I've eaten sushi.
>>
>>
>>i agree with this guy ... that (1) is very common colloquially
>
>
>
>I strongly disagree. I've never heard anything like that from anybody,
>except perhaps from someone I once knew who spoke broken English,
>
>In my opinion, (1) is terrible. It would be far from the top of my
>preferred order.
>
>
>>(4) seems a bit illogical _before_ the speaker actually puts it in his/her mouth.
>
>
>I think it's fine, not at all illogical.
>
>Also fine is "This is the first time I ate sushi."

You would say that? Not "This is the first time I've eaten sushi"?

To use "I ate" would require "That was", not "This is".

>
>
>>that's why the following is common:
>>
>> (5) -- This is the first time I'm eating sushi.
>
>
>
>That's also OK.

Hunh! That sounds like some teenager photographing her plate and
messaging some other teenager.




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Tony Cooper - Orlando Florida

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